Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: May 16, 2025, 04:30 UTC
Message-ID: <aCa_Y2th6xaYeSs8@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <f01e1e88-c161-43ba-9845-4fc7c9f85d0e@xiplink.com>

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 01:30:47PM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:

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> On 2025-05-15 09:29, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 05:15:30PM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:
> > > in its name.
> > > 
> > > How about [[consults thesaurus ...]] "git ascribe-tree"?
> > > 
> > > Or maybe fold it into ls-tree, e.g. "git ls-tree --ascribe"?
> > 
> > I think anything that needs a thesaurus to come up with probably isn't a
> > good name for non-native speakers. I personally had to look up what this
> > word means.
> 
> Yeah, that was a bit tongue-in-cheek, sorry.
> 
> (Honestly, "ascribe" would be really bad, precisely because it is a synonym
> of "blame"...)

There's no need to be sorry, even if it hadn't been tongue-in-cheek :)

Patrick